Pangloss Posted July 5, 2008 Posted July 5, 2008 (edited) Politics FAQ & Useful Links This post is intended to be a reference for three kinds of information: 1) How to go about posting on the politics board (rules and guidelines) (coming soon). 2) Helpful links to reference sites that are useful for discussion here. 3) Links to previous discussions on hot topics so you can refer back to how we talking about an issue before. To that end I could use everyone's help, especially with the second and third points, which you can start adding to right now by replying to this thread. This thread will be open but moderated -- I'll be able to see your replies but I'll only tap certain ones for visibility. Others will be deleted after useful information is culled and added to the FAQ post. You can contribute to the guidelines section as well if you want to write up any helpful suggestions about posting here. FAQ Post Begins Here --------------------- Frequently Asked Questions about the SFN Politics Subforum section[/hr] Useful Reference Links for Political Discussion section[/hr] News section[/hr](Submitter in parentheses) BBC Front Page (CDarwin) Legal References section[/hr](Submitter in parentheses) Pending Government Legislation Watch List section[/hr](Submitter in parentheses) FISA Amendments Act of 2008 - Regarding current US wiretapping regulation. Government Watchdogs section[/hr](Submitter in parentheses) GovTrack - Useful for looking at specific legislation in US legislature. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Government Offices & Individuals section[/hr](Submitter in parentheses) US Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain, Official Web Site US Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator Barack Obama, Official Web Site Historical References section[/hr](Submitter in parentheses) Significant SFN Political Discussions By Subject section[/hr](Listed by Date of Thread Start) Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction 7/1/08 US Economy, Late Bush Administration 7/3/08 FISA and Other US Wiretapping Laws/Legislation/Discussion 7/4/08, 7/9/08 Edited December 14, 2008 by Pangloss
Pangloss Posted July 5, 2008 Author Posted July 5, 2008 (edited) (Note: This thread has been merged into the FAQ.) This thread is intended as a reading list for the members, by the members. It is open and unmoderated, but a few rules apply. The general idea is to post links to articles here without any discussion. You can explain briefly what issue the article addresses or why it is interesting, but the idea is not to provocate or advertise or evangelize a specific point of view. It's okay to pass along an article you feel might convince people of a certain viewpoint, but the purpose of the thread is really to share articles of interest that we come across in our own reading outside of the forum. So a few ground rules: 1) No replies to specific posts, except for the following reasons: a) Correcting a broken link (expect me to edit the broken link and delete your reply). b) Add another article on the same subject. 2) Just include the links, without explanation if possible, but if necessary a brief explanation of the link is okay. 3) Try not to hound us with a bunch of links on the same subject. If you really feel compelled to do that, I can gather some links from previous posts into a single post for you. Or just do that yourself and I'll delete your previous posts in the thread. 4) Please try to keep the physical length of your post to a bare minimum, to allow for rapid reference scanning by members later on. We want to be able to search and refer to this thread in discussions; that's part of the idea (this is also part of why the extraneous conversation is being kept to a minimum). I'm starting a separate thread to discuss this thread, so you can post any questions there. Edited December 13, 2008 by Pangloss
DJBruce Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 (edited) United States Supreme Court Decision on "District of Columbia v Heller", concerning the District's ban on firearms. (Warning: PDF!) The Wikipedia also has a lengthy, sourced article on the case here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller Edited July 7, 2008 by Pangloss detail added by moderator (thanks DJBruce for the 1st submission!)
DJBruce Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/constRedir.html http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/
Pangloss Posted July 7, 2008 Author Posted July 7, 2008 Conservatives may fight McCain on convention floor. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/06/AR2008070602322.html RNC makes first battleground-state ad buy, focusing on balanced energy plan. http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/06/rnc-unit-launches-first-big-ad-buy-in-battleground-states/
Pangloss Posted July 9, 2008 Author Posted July 9, 2008 (edited) T. Boone Pickens made headlines yesterday regarding his new wind power venture. Today he writes in the Wall Street Journal, explaining his overall energy strategy from an investor's perspective. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121556087828237463.html?mod=djemEditorialPage line[/hr] US Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt writes about Congress' lobby-driven efforts to stop competitive bidding in Medicare equipment purchasing for the elderly. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121556116413437535.html?mod=djemEditorialPage Edited July 9, 2008 by Pangloss multiple post merged
Pangloss Posted July 17, 2008 Author Posted July 17, 2008 (edited) Slate op/ed on changing the War Powers Act: http://www.slate.com/id/2195152?nav=wp Howard Kurtz on the death of Tony Snow: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071302054.html line[/hr] From the Wall Street Journal and Cook Political Report. What's interesting about this image is mainly the lower portion, which indicates how currently-competitive seats are leaning amongst voters in those districts. line[/hr] Interesting article from Politico.com about Oliver Stone's efforts to make his upcoming film "W" as realistic as possible. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11776.html line[/hr] The New Yorker's very long biography on Obama's early days. This is the story that came out this week (for next week's issue) that has resulted in controversy, not for the story, but for the cover that the New Yorker ran. Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama line[/hr] Fannie, Freddie spent $200M to buy influence Edited July 16, 2008 by Pangloss multiple post merged
Pangloss Posted July 22, 2008 Author Posted July 22, 2008 The Wall Street Journal's Shelby Steele explores the differences between Jesse Jackson's approach to black-white relations versus Barack Obama's. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121668579909472083.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
bascule Posted October 17, 2008 Posted October 17, 2008 I've been using this site for the past several months to track the polls: http://fivethirtyeight.com (538 is the number of electoral votes, btw) It was developed by a guy named Nate Silver who originally wrote a model for predicting baseball games called PECOTA. The model predicted the Rays would turn it around, going from losing 96 games to winning 90. They ended up winning 97. Who'da thunk it? PECOTA did. Now he's turned to predicting elections. His model runs 10,000 times a day, and analyzes the history of polls vs election results with a data set going back to the '50s. He predicts Obama has a 94.7% chance of winning... on election day.
Pangloss Posted January 21, 2010 Author Posted January 21, 2010 Good article from today's LA Times overviewing the recent history of American relations with Haiti, including the policies of the previous two US presidential administrations. http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-haiti-ex-presidents20-2010jan20,0,6934198.story
Syntho-sis Posted January 27, 2010 Posted January 27, 2010 I hope someone finds this relevant. World's smallest political quiz.
BlightedFox Posted November 23, 2021 Posted November 23, 2021 (edited) Okay, so maybe a full selection would be a little ridiculous. Insead of even trying to select only those perfect top 10, of which I absolutely could not do. I'll just spit-ball and add a few authors and some of their works I consider important reads for a better heterodox understanding that most people do not possess. David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt Thomas Frank, Listen Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666062-listen-liberal What's the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54666.What_s_the_Matter_with_Kansas_How_Conservatives_Won_the_Heart_of_America The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45320354-the-people-no Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1237300.The_Shock_Doctrine?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=7ez9OLf27s&rank=1 Michael Hudson, J Is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34150000-j-is-for-junk-economics Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316328.Super_Imperialism ...And Forgive Them Their Debts https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42515482-and-forgive-them-their-debts Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49098225-another-now Slavoz Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18912.The_Sublime_Object_of_Ideology?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=MtLX2LEzt5&rank=1 Noam Chomsky, and Edward S Herman, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12617.Manufacturing_Consent?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Hi9SaHphWC&rank=2 Obviously, I would recommend the standard fare for more popular ideologies, aka... Ricardo, Smith, Marx, Mises, Hayek,Keynes, Friedman Adorno, Gramsci, Kropotkin Hume, Descartes, Plato, Aristotle Locke, Montesquieu, Paine Hobbes, Burke But I consider those to be in the "Well Duh!" of requisite readings. And obviously, in terms of the populars, there are plenty more that could (and probably should) be added. Edited November 23, 2021 by BlightedFox
sethoflagos Posted August 26 Posted August 26 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_the_English_Working_Class Recent events following the 2024 UK general election have reminded me of how much this book influenced me in the late '70s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Read The collection of essays 'Anarchy & Order' concerning (broadly) the role of art within a left-leaning libertarian framework is difficult to obtain outside the UK second hand market. But we'll worth discovering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_to_Freedom Tied up a lot of loose ends for me and far easier to read than Being and Nothingness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-Fé_(novel) Just 'must reads' imho. Beware: may cause offence to people called Karen (among others)
Peterkin Posted August 26 Posted August 26 I also recommend (not only to my British friends) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavs:_The_Demonization_of_the_Working_Class and https://hazelhenderson.com/the-politics-of-the-solar-age/
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